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I have a vague recollection of it being in some African city, Lagos or Johannesburg but I can’t find reference to it when I search. I seem to recall it was built as high-class apartments but is now a tenement.
On the Deathstar?
That’s some depressing architecture.
Ponte City Apartments in Johannesburg: Ponte City - Wikipedia
Per the wiki link, it doesn’t have to be that bad.
Shudder. I have an unnatural fear of freaky looking buildings and cylindrical ones are right at the top of the list. I don’t believe I could live near this one. :eek:
Apart from any actual fear of them, cylindrical buildings can be a pain in the ass. I worked briefly at Oracle, whose office towers look like overgrown water heaters, and shared a pie-slice shaped office with another person. Very inconvenient shape, particularly in the smaller pie slices accorded to staff, rather than executives. It gets odd when status conferred by offices is measured in radians.
Thank you, bibliophage.
26°11’25.37"S 28° 3’26.23"E on Google Earth. A black hole.
Now I know where David Weber got the inspiration for the architecture of Nouveau Paris.
And yes, in the books, the empty-core cylindrical housing complexes were falling apart, too.
Man, that made my stomach lurch. Ugh.
